Doliovertebra
Doliovertebra was a small marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Triassic Period, about 247 to 241 million years ago. It was a sauropterygian, a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles, but it was not a dinosaur.2
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Datos curiosos
Doliovertebra lived in the Anisian age, which was about 247 to 241 million years ago, during the middle part of the Triassic Period.1
Its fossils were found in the Jena Formation in Germany, which was a marine environment at the time.1
The name Doliovertebra means 'barrel vertebra', which might refer to the shape of its backbone bones.2
Scientists think it was an actively moving animal that lived in the ocean, not on land.1
Doliovertebra is known from only one fossil site, making it a very rare find.1

Cazamitos
Mito: Doliovertebra was a dinosaur.
Verdade: Doliovertebra was a marine reptile called a sauropterygian, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land and had different body features.2
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Doliovertebra
- Bautizado por
- Huene 19022
- Grupo
- Réptiles mariños
- Familia / clado
- Pachypleurosauridae2
- Clasificación
- Sauropterygia2
- Idade das rochas
- de 247 a 241 millóns de anos ()2
- Formacións rochosas
- Jena2
- Países
- Alemaña2
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database2
- Descubrimento
- Doliovertebra was named by the scientist F. v. Huene in 1902. The first fossils were found at Freyburg an der Unstrut in Germany.2
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure if Doliovertebra is a valid genus. Some researchers think it might be a nomen dubium, meaning the fossils are too incomplete to be certain about its identity.1
De onde veñen os datos
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Doliovertebra in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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